# Danez Smith (@danez-smith)

Danez Smith is documented as a poet whose public record is best reconstructed from credited works, institutional collections, and contemporary or later scholarship. This profile treats dates, roles, and attributions as source-bound claims rather than filling gaps in the record with inference.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Danez Smith's public record._

## Topics

- [Reception and Literary Context](/@danez-smith/historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ideas, Influence, and Reception](/@danez-smith/ideas-and-influence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Poetic Work and Practice](/@danez-smith/career-and-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/search?query=Danez%20Smith
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Danez%20Smith
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Danez%20Smith

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "danez-smith", "question": "…"}`.